I Paid $40 For A Broken 3D Printer. Can I Fix it?

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@kaytrim Ай бұрын

Ran across your video just scrolling through. Learned a bit in how repairs work and dropped a sub. Thank you for taking the time to share the journey.

@3Dprintinglawyer Ай бұрын

Great job on the component level troubleshooting and repair. Pretty neat. Subscribing!

@derekmcdonald2168 Ай бұрын

Love these videos. It always is a good time when i can see the troubleshooting process!

@andrewwoulfe6579 Ай бұрын

not bad. saved the ewaste. great work

@PeetHobby Ай бұрын

Never use force. If you'd just waited a bit longer, the solder on the other side would probably have melted too, and you could have gently pushed it off with almost no force.

@Enjoymentboy Ай бұрын

This is the EXACT reason why I'll never get anything bambu. I like to tinker and fix stuf...kinda one of the reasons why I have 3D printers in the first place. But I want to diagnose and repair not just press buttons and send it in if something breaks. It absolutely drives me nuts when I see someone too lazy to even try to figure out how to fix something they paid so much money for.

@raypalmer7733 27 күн бұрын

I still use my Anycubic i3 mega, no real issues with it, just works and is in an enclosure. I use it for PLA, PETG and ABS. Just replaced the nozzle with a more modern one better than the original and have many spares. The modern one can get to 300 Deg C. Bed leveling is a pain, but with feeler gauges can get it down pat all the time (gap is now just 0.1 mm, can gown down 0.04). I replaced the glass bed with a magnetic sheet and now use PEI spring steel sheets. Got these of Aliexpress, you can use larger PEI sheets but you just need to make sure not too large (in my case 220mm for 210mm original glass bed). The only thing I would like to see is allowing the nozzle to get to 300 Deg C and the bed to 110 Deg C. I know gcode can force it 300 DegC and Bed to 100 DegC, but using the interface limits it 250 and 90. This is due to the S/W being at an age when 250/90 was pretty decent. The best thing about.. You can tinker with the basics. Unlike my Bambu Lab A1, its closed and thus limited in tinnkering.

@ebbamb Ай бұрын

Nice! Bought my printer cheap and broken as well. Unrepaired off eBay, it was a Microcenter return. Ender 3 S1 for $90 shipped, when it arrived the nozzle had a huge clog on it, and the seller sent me a 2nd whole printer when I asked about parts for it.

@3707_here Ай бұрын

I already fixed the “broken” mega S at my Makerspace. Idk why but I love repairing 3D printers, including my own.

@katpuz01 Ай бұрын

If you decide to mod that printer, I recommend putting a Bmg extruder or clone on it

@RinnosukeETQW Ай бұрын

"I'll just put this with the rest of the fire"

@KennethScharf Ай бұрын

I bought a broken Ender 3 Pro. I turned it into a Voron Switchwire.

@Ravenkeeper-c3z Ай бұрын

This is the way! And then you buy a Trident frame and put the SW in that 🤣 was my journey lol

@Phil-D83 Ай бұрын

Easy fix if you are experienced. That i3 mega were good machines. Change the board to a skr, add a screen and some mosfets

@JunctionRunner Ай бұрын

I have an SKR 1.3 in my parts bin so I was very tempted, but I found a trade for something smaller, direct drive and with klipper so I already passed this machine on after a couple days. It was giving some quite nice results stock however, better than I expected for layer lines and consistency. The single drive bowden however was a little frustrating which helped my decision as it strips pla easily.

@Phil-D83 Ай бұрын

@JunctionRunner very good machine

@FilmFactry Ай бұрын

Where did you find it? I've been interested in a resin printer but don't have a real need for one, but if it was cheap.

@JunctionRunner Ай бұрын

I got lucky and found it pretty quickly after it was posted on Facebook Marketplace. Stuff there seems to move pretty fast, or be horrendously overpriced, but after checking now and then for a couple weeks when I thought to, I managed to score a deal so it's definitely worth keeping an eye on.

@Iansimmons Ай бұрын

Hey, I pretty much did the same exact thing!!

@jasongooden917 Ай бұрын

I bought an ender 3 3D for 60 bucks Canadian, but i had to assemble it.. It does works but I had to upgrade a few things like a glass bed and auto leveling.

@JunctionRunner Ай бұрын

That's a solid deal too. ABL is also an insanely nice quality of life upgrade, manual leveling isn't that bad, but being able to mesh, and even do klipper's adaptive mesh before each print is so nice in comparison, it's hard to go back.

@joetoney184 Ай бұрын

Having owned an anycubic mega-x it’s a giant piece of junk. It’s been sitting in parts for the last year I need to recycle it.

@JunctionRunner Ай бұрын

Ah, interesting. It seems like a good base platform to overhaul, but I already have a printer for that lol, so I actually just traded it for a Sovol SV07 today as someone was looking for a larger printer. I still wanted something more like a cantilever 180x180x180 machine, but this is significantly smaller still so easy to put away when I don't need two running.

@niemand806 Ай бұрын

I have had mine for 4 years or so never ran into a problem. Now that I got a core xy printer, I decided to upgrade it to Klipper and slap a direct extruded + ercf on it.